11-Day China Tour $888 Per Person Twin Share from Sydney/Melbourne ($550 Single Person Supplement) @ AVG Travels

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    rvsure on 19/06/2025 - 11:15

    +2

    We are vegetarians and we struggled a bit with identifying the vegetarian food and communicating with the staff. While we were on tour our guide helped with ordering food. Many times we were able to get some dishes customised. However, requesting the same on our own using the translate apps was quite difficult and we gave up a few times.

    Our Beijing guide gave us a card with I am vegetarian written in Chinese on the first day. That also helped a lot in communicating at the restaurants.

    Also, you will be mostly be eating stir-fries for breakfast lunch and dinner as the options are limited. We took some instant soups, pastas and some snacks with us that helped on some days.

    Apart from that in Beijing we found an Indian restaurant with clear vegetarian options and English speaking staff. In couple of other cities we went to pizzahut and customised a pizza to remove meat. The staff spoke decent enough English to understand our needs.

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      nomadspartan on 19/06/2025 - 15:33

      +1

      Thanks for sharing!

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  Hinee on 19/06/2025 - 11:51

  Awesome deal. Just wish it wasn't so far away.

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  joshua6557 on 19/06/2025 - 12:18

  +1

  do some homework, go and travel on your own,
  maybe it costs more, but it gains more…

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  starspawn on 19/06/2025 - 12:34

  I want to book this!

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    starspawn on 19/06/2025 - 21:16

    Booked! Taking my mate, can’t wair!

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  freeb1e4me on 19/06/2025 - 12:35

  +1

  Compulsory Tipping for driver and tour guide (AU$12 per person/day). This is collected by our tour guide when you arrives in Beijing.

  Given the fluctuations in exchange rate, how much is the tipping in yuan that you are expected to pay? And is this collected daily or all at once for the 11 days that you are there?

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    clover on 19/06/2025 - 22:21

    +1

    For me, 4 days paid to the guide in Beijing, the rest is collected by the one in Shanghai. Paid on the last day with them. They both genuinely explained why the tips are collected and all of us are happy to paid. To be honest, our tour guides were super nice so all of us were happy to tip them. I paid with AUD btw.

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  deals4amar on 19/06/2025 - 12:58

  Day 11 Arrive home

  So essentially a 10 day trip?

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    freeb1e4me on 19/06/2025 - 14:17

    More like 9 days as day 1 you arrive at night to essentially just sleep

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      deals4amar on 19/06/2025 - 19:02

      Haha,.. misleading marketing at best!

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      jcft on 22/06/2025 - 01:28

      Actually…
      Day 1.. Leave Aust. / arrive china- do nothing day
      Day…10… Leave China - do nothing day
      Day 11… Arrive Australia - do nothing day

      So its actually 8 day tour - divide per day $$
      Calculate total price - tour, tips, extra food, optional tours, extra private attractions - D/land, Didi or public transport ..etc

      Realistically, most things are done for you..
      Flights, hotels, attractions are all organised
      No stress, just go with the flow

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  wallet72 on 19/06/2025 - 15:26

  +1

  I did one of these cheap tours of Vietnam last year. Yes, there were lots of stops to see 'traditional' crafts and buy trinkets - but even on more expensive tours you have that experience. We were never pressured into buying anything, and even if we bought something the prices were good.
  The sightseeing was good, the tour itself was worth much more than we paid.

  Like someone said before, if the businesses subsidise the tour then what's the problem with stopping and looking?

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    freeb1e4me on 19/06/2025 - 20:02

    …what's the problem with stopping and looking?

    The time wasted in stopping and looking

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  sunday9987 on 19/06/2025 - 15:34

  Any idea how this compares with the Aldi tour?

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  anzacpaul on 19/06/2025 - 21:57

  Amazing deal, do these come up often or is it a once a year type of thing?

  I want to impulse buy but gf wants to think on it.

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    starspawn on 19/06/2025 - 22:07

    +1

    Sleep on it, I locked in and have been monitoring flight prices for the past year or so. About as good as it gets

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      anzacpaul on 20/06/2025 - 10:14

      Regret sleeping on it now :(

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        starspawn on 20/06/2025 - 11:33

        Oh wow, deal over huh

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  clover on 19/06/2025 - 22:18

  +2

  August could be a bit hot. Just finished the tour last week myself. I had the choice to roam the city on my own on some days and my tour guide had no issues. I just need to inform them the day before. Some ppl decided to go to Disneyland in Shanghai and our tour guide was willing to accomodate. Anyway, great tour. I only bought a few things from the shops as I wanted them anyway (i am a heavy tea drinker). Some groups however didnt have such nice tour guides like mine from what I heard.

  Anyway, as long as you got Alipay set up properly, you can do anything on your own (I used both didi and subway, ordering food/general grocery without any issues). I could even pay our tour guide for some optional tours with alipay so the whole trip I didnt need any cash. (just make sure each transaction is < 200rmb to avoid surcharge to split them if your need to pay more)

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    freeb1e4me on 19/06/2025 - 22:48

    Some ppl decided to go to Disneyland in Shanghai and our tour guide was willing to accomodate

    They will drive you there for a 7:30am start? 😁

    as long as you got Alipay set up properly, you can do anything on your own

    They don’t take Mastercard or Visa?

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  Ted0525 on 20/06/2025 - 00:21

  Price is showing $1099 now.

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    jcft on 22/06/2025 - 01:00

    Different month
    Different prices

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  CaptainQuackers on 20/06/2025 - 02:12

  Yo what gives I was trying to book this; have they just put the price up? $1099 now Any workarounds?

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  anzacpaul on 20/06/2025 - 08:08

  +1

  Knew I'd regret sleeping on it.

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